Clinics & Services

Dietary Advice

This is provided in regular clinics. Your doctor or health visitor will refer you if necessary.

Family Planning

The unit provides a completely confidential Family Planning service. Please make an appointment with the doctor. Emergency Contraception: you need to make an appointment to see a doctor within 48 hours, of unprotected sex. Some chemists will provide emergency contraception without a prescription, but for a charge. However, if you are using the chemist in Measham you will need a prescription to obtain emergency contraception.

Travel injections are available through our travel service. If you are travelling abroad our Travel Clerks will deal with all the administration. Please collect a Travel Form from Reception or Download and Print the Questionnaire from the Travel Vaccination page, please complete the questionnaires and return to us within a minimum of 6 weeks before your departure date. If you are needing any vaccinations and it is under the 6 week period then we may ask you to contact a Private Travel Clinic instead. Extra charges are made for protection against some illness, such as Rabies, Yellow Fever, Japanese Encephalitis and Malaria.You can find more information including our online travel form on the above tab.

Liquid Nitrogen - Cryotherapy

Cryotherapy is a technique of freezing lesions on the skin and can be a useful way of shrinking/removing things like verrucas, warts etc.

The doctor will be able to freeze the lesion with liquid nitrogen at Measham Medical Unit, if it is appropriate to do so.

Maternity Services

We provide shared care during your pregnancy between our midwife and a named GP of your choice. If you know you are pregnant you can book your first appointment with the Midwife without seeing a GP. The midwife will offer you a choice of Hospitals for your delivery and the option of a home confinement if appropriate. Antenatal workshops are also provided. The midwifery service will also come and see you and your baby at home during the post natal period.

Travel Vaccinations

Travel Clinic

Travel injections are available through our travel service. If you are travelling abroad our Travel Clerks will deal with all the administration.

Please collect a Travel Form from Reception or Download and Print the Questionnaire below, please complete the questionnaires and return to us a minimum of 6 weeks before your departure date. If you are needing any vaccinations and it is under the 6 week period then we may ask you to contact a Private Travel Clinic instead. Extra charges are made for protection against some illness, such as Rabies, Yellow Fever, Japanese Encephalitis and Malaria.

Once you have completed and in your Travel Questionnaire to the best of your knowledge, one of our Travel Clerks will contact you if you require any vaccinations or advice pre-travel and discuss your travel arrangements. This will include which countries and areas within countries that you are visiting to determine what vaccinations are required. They will then book you in with one of the practice nurse for an appointment/appointments for whatever course of vaccination you may need before you go on your travels.

There is further information about countries and vaccinations required on the links below

It is important to make this initial appointment as early as possible - at least 6 weeks before you travel - as a second appointment will be required with the practice nurse to actually receive the vaccinations. These vaccines have to be ordered as they are not a stock vaccine. Your second appointment needs to be at least 2 weeks before you travel to allow the vaccines to work.

Some travel vaccines are ordered on a private prescription and these incur a charge over and above the normal prescription charge. This is because not all travel vaccinations are included in the services provided by the NHS.

If you are travelling to Europe the EU has published useful information for travellers on the European website.

Non-NHS Services

Some services provided are not covered under our contract with the NHS and therefore attract charges. Examples include the following:

Medicals for Sports and Driving Requirements (HGV, PSV etc.)

Insurance Claim Forms

Passport signing

Prescriptions for taking medication abroad

Private Sick Notes

Vaccination Certificates

The fees charged are based on the British Medical Association (BMA) suggested scales and our reception staff will be happy to advise you about them along with appointment availability.

Community Bus

Measham Medical Unit Patient Transport Service

The Surgery Shuttle – ‘The Gift of a Lift’

For patients over the age of 55 and who have either poor mobility and/or transport difficulties. The Measham Medical Unit Shuttle Bus offers a free and flexible service to any patient who needs the gift of a lift in order to get down to the surgery.

If you are over the age of 55 and feel you fit the criteria, please feel free to call the surgery and enquire about the service.

On the 22nd February 2010 Measham Medical Unit launched its new patient transport service.

A generous donation from The Barbara Boardman-Weston Charitable Fund, has kindly purchased and fully funded a new 15 seat minibus.

Mrs Boardman-Weston lived locally and was a patient at the surgery for many years. It was her wish that better facilities were made available to our elderly people when visiting the Unit. When approached by Mrs Boardman-Weston’s family, doctors and staff at the surgery met and decided that patient transportation was a problem for many patients.

Some of our patients live in villages with little or no direct public transport to Measham and often rely on the good will of family and friends.

As a result of this generous donation, we have been fortunate to purchase a new 15 seat minibus, with full adaptation to allow for patients who use wheelchairs or walking aids. It has a fully automatic tail-lift together with easy access low steps and handrails to help patients that may have problems accessing normal cars and buses.

The service has been fully funded by The Charitable Trust and as a result there will be no charge to our patients. The service is available for patients over 55 years of age who have a mobility or transportation difficulties.

The minibus can be booked by telephone at the time of making your appointment or in person with our reception staff.

On behalf of The Boardman-Weston family and all our staff at Measham Medical Unit we hope ‘THE GIFT OF A LIFT’ will be a great success and benefit to our elderly patients.

Unfortunately, GP's are not allowed to treat dental problems with antibiotics. We are only able to give pain relief advice.

If you have a dental problem, please see your Dentist or an Emergency Dentist.